Geez, Nasus thought process and mechanix be so broad, I could go on forever
Maybe If you had a really specific question I could narrow it down
First pick Nasus here, so hear me out - w-
I do not build mr, yup.. theres no starting mr items
you know why some mid laners take health runes? I interpreted it as, health is simply an efficient way of dealing with mages cuz fuq mr
as such, my 2 starting items NEVER EVER HAVE TO CHANGE
Start 
duh
At some point, I was actually utility Nasus, which you should consider.
The perks of this is I could get early CDR, extra potion, MTHERFKING BISCUITS!!!!, and extra life steal and spell vamp.... then I reached the "git gud" stage and didnt need a flask and 4 biscuits anymore... and simpy invested in life steal quints and CDR runes
First back 
, if you can afford only one, take if against ad and for the latter
I think it is your play style that is wrong, based on your story, I got the idea that you FOUGHT BACK... am I wrong?
Not just against Vlad but you do it with Teemo as well? generally I never fight back
why waste your time on them? why push the wave? why do anything but try and stay alive and farm
trying to fight back just pushes the wave and causes you to needlessly take damage
The ONLY champ I seriously fight back is against Poppy, cuz she's a shitty early champ that even Nasus can beat
The ONLY reason I would fight at all would be to bait abilities
Vlad has 3/4 AoE abilities, he just needs to use any one of them atleast idk once? twice? and the wave will push
It's hard to tell what else you might be doing wrong
I approach just about every match up the same way, vayne, jayce, nidalee wutever i dont really care
Step 1: test aggression
In your case, it is established that your guy knows his shit and he's very aggressive, this is good
Step 2: bait a ability that will push the lane
In your case, either Vlad W or E is fine
In most match ups, Nasus never really has to hit the other laner, therefore he wont take minion aggro
The very act of walking toward the other laner 9/10 will invoke more aggression than normal
I do this with alot of champions, especially Riven, I love beating Riven
Step 2.5: you cant bait for shit? he has no AoE? are you matched up against Shen? well shit!
dont worry the wave pushes it self if you dont do anything bout it
Step 3: kay, gg, as long as I dont die like 4 times, I just won lane
In this case, you didnt manage to get here lol
You just needa know the control panel for the minion wave
The one most relevant here is that minions dont freeze it self dude, rather the wave CANT freeze UNLESS
YOUR minion wave is LARGER than his minion wave OR your wave is healthier than HIS wave
There's no way the wave just froze mid just like that
See for yourself, go to a bot game and do nothing but last hit minions, the wave pushed didnt it? Exactly
If you placed a ring of fire or took sufficient minion damage, that may have been enough to screw over your entire game
What else is there... right just as minions can block you, you can block minions
If even a little, you can delay a caster minion or displace it just a smidgen
Again test in bot games, there are cases where 1 wave out pushes the other DESPITE ZERO interference from ANY player
Now you know the cause of that phenomena
By the way... do you know that Gromp can damage/kill your minions?
Maybe with some coordination from your jungler, you might just be able to pull it off
The most common Counter Nasus strat is to punish him
Well shit man, logically you just wanna reduce the amount of times you go get CS
Q stack + CS > CS
The window for which Vlad can harm you is small and not frequent, he's also not bursty
This is why I feel Vlad is not high a threat match up
I would stay as healthy as possible and when my Q is off CD, I run up and get a stack
1 Q from Vlad is by no means anywhere near enough to scare me, I also got armor runes, idk if you got those but that really helps with AA
which is a higher concern to me than his Q
You got shit tons of potions for a reason, healing up after every confrontation is easy
For more advanced techniques, just count cooldowns
"The calm AFTER the storm" applies to any champ, if he just used an ability, DONT PUSSY OUT
he aint got SHIT on you bro, he aint fooling anyone, we all know its on CD.. he cant hurt you
Any other concerns?
. When I go in on him, he just kites me with AA+Q and lets his minions damage me while I chase him around. Then he heals back up.
, because at least I can outsustain him since he has none. There must be something i'm doing wrong, normally I prefer to learn through trial and error but this is getting out of hand and i'm tired of losing lane and ruining the game for all the other players on my team. I'm looking for any advice or criticism.
